Best 121 quotes in «mediocre quotes» category

I am not a success if all I do is fit into somebody's prescription; its better to stand out and be celebrated for being a definition. The world would prefer to take the bitter pills of an achiever than the sweet chocolates of a mediocre.

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born selfish, abusive, vile. Just look around you and see. Society cynical and ferocious, the humble heckled and pillaged by the rich traffickers in necessities. Everywhere the triumph of the mediocre and unscrupulous, everywhere the apotheosis of crooked politics and finance. And you think you can make any progress against a stream like that? No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!

If you stay passionate and committed, mediocrity will never be eager to befriend you.

Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.

In the faculty of failure, mediocrity is never an optional course!

It pays to be really poor or really rich in the USA and it really sucks if you are in the middle earning a mediocre salary.

I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.

Love sharpens intelligence, fear dulls it. Who wants you to be intelligent? Not those who are in power. How can they want you to be intelligent?—because if you are intelligent you will start seeing the whole strategy, their games. They want you to be stupid and mediocre. They certainly want you to be efficient as far as work is concerned, but not intelligent; hence humanity lives at the lowest, at the minimum of its potential.

Many people from the UK have the impression that the USA medical profession is the best in the world. After a decade of treatment from them, I had concluded that it is a very expensive system that is riddle with incompetence and delivers mediocre care.

Mediocrity is a choice. I hope you choose to say ‘NO!

Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long.

Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence.

Most people are each just another human being.

Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.

She would be able to stay mediocre, something that I would never be able to go back to being.

Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive those who schemed and plotted it for him to spend those 10000 bitter days in prison.

Societies are mediocre, individuals are excellent.

Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones.

Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets a golden watch. And then, eventually, Somebody dies. And, a Nobody is buried.

Teachers loved to say people had potential; that's what teachers did to keep themselves from getting canned. What were they supposed to say-I'm sorry, your kid has no promise whatsoever? She's utterly mediocre in every way?

Some people are troubled by their mediocrity. Some, by their greatness.

The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, a priori, abnormal.

The lack of limitless positive imagination has undoubtedly led many people with great potential to settle for a mediocre state of living.

Start lifting your brand off the ground with an excelling mentality becoming best at what you do. You can't afford to be an average person although you may have begun from a level below average

The vast majority of people are each the greatest only at being them.

There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!

There is no trivia in a strategic mind.

The worst to ever happen to a person who aims at the sky is to fall on the tallest mountain; the best that can happen to a person who aims at the ceiling of his room is to fall on the carpet of his floor!

Timidness in life only yield mediocre outcomes.

To become a better you, be diligent and never let the charms of procrastination and excuses seduce you to fall for mediocrity.

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

What does it profit man if he allows a nonentity to make him look irrelevant just because he wants to indirectly have him become a life member of the nonentity club? No man can make you less valuable except you enter into agreement with such man. Not all birds with wings have the mastery of soaring high....

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.

There is no future in the past. Any tour into the past is perhaps courage to live at the average level as you did; old and cold, blind and blunt! Come out! Out of the past and change position. You matter, your future matters

To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity anytime anywhere.

Was he to bray this in profoundest brass Arointing his dreams with fugal requiems? Was he to company vastest things defunct With a blubber of tom-toms harrowing the sky? Scrawl a tragedian's testament? Prolong His active force in an inactive dirge, Which, let the tall musicians call and call, Should merely call him dead? Pronounce amen Through choirs infolded to the outmost clouds? Because he built a cabin who once planned Loquacious columns by the ructive sea? Because he turned to salad-beds again?

Where you are now is as a result of either your choice or someone’s choice. If you neglect the ideas of choosing the ultimate things for yourself, someone will hire you by choosing the average thing for you.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

You have two options to choose from as an aspiring achiever; either you become excellent or you become excellent! Mediocrity is never an option!

Your failure may put smiles on people’s faces while your success squeezes tears from their eyes. Don’t be deceived; it’s just a charm to entice you to fall in love with mediocrity!

All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.

A high church for the true mediocre.

All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre